I am honest

Bao Gu wiped away his tears with the back of his hand, and comforted himself in his heart as if the sheriff hadn't given her steamed buns, and she managed to eat a mouthful of steamed buns, which was much better than those hungry people who didn't even get any crumbs of steamed buns.She wiped away her tears, went to help Aunt Zhou up and comforted her: "Aunt Zhou stopped crying, there will be porridge later."

Aunt Zhou sat on the ground with her back against the stone lion and cried, "Porridge is no better than steamed buns with white noodles! Those goddamn... white steamed buns..."

Bao Gu couldn't persuade Aunt Zhou, and found that Aunt Zhou was crying earth-shatteringly but didn't even shed a tear, so she let Aunt Zhou cry and waited for the sheriff's wife to deliver porridge with peace of mind.

After about half an hour, the gate of the Sheriff's Mansion opened again, and two teams of guards came out from the gate of the Sheriff's Mansion.Bao Gu and the hungry people in the crowd stretched their necks to look at the guards who came out of the Sheriff's Mansion.The guards of the Sheriff's Mansion did not leave after they came out, but spread out at the gate of the mansion to maintain order. Following the guards came out a few servants carrying long tables, as well as large pots and barrels. servant.

The butler came out and howled loudly: "Porridge is served, line up—"

The crowd mobilized with a "wow" and rushed forward one after another.

Just as Bao Gu was about to shout: "Aunt Zhou, the porridge is served", he was about to follow the example of the hungry people and squeeze forward, but found that the crying Aunt Zhou stopped abruptly after the housekeeper's voice, and got up at an incomparably swift speed He grabbed her wrist and squeezed forward in an unstoppable manner.Aunt Zhou grasped Bao Gu's wrist so tightly that it hurt.Aunt Zhou grabbed her and pushed forward desperately in the crowd, and the people behind her squeezed desperately against her, pushing forward and back so that she couldn't even stand, and the people were squeezed like they were about to be crushed. It was flat, and the bones in my body seemed to be falling apart.

At that moment, Bao Gu only felt that he did not starve to death in this rare severe drought, but was squeezed to death in this severe drought!This way of dying, what face does she have to meet her father under the nine springs!When she was so crowded that she was dizzy and couldn't even breathe, she heard a guard yelling: "Line up, line up! Go back—" Aunt Zhou was still holding her hand and pushing forward, she really couldn't do anything She had no choice but to grit her teeth and push the hungry people who were squeezing her away with her buttocks, and successfully squeezed behind Aunt Zhou, with Aunt Zhou's human shield blocking the front, and guards came to squeeze her around. The hungry people rushed back, so that there were many fewer people on the left and right, so she felt a little less pressure and was able to breathe.At the same time, I looked up and saw a long table placed in front of Aunt Zhou, on which there were already several large pots of snow-white... rice soup?

Bao Gu took a closer look and found that it was indeed rice soup.Her eyes straightened immediately, and she called out, "Where's the porridge that you agreed on? Why is it rice soup?" As soon as she said that, she was bumped by Aunt Zhou with her back elbow, and she heard Aunt Zhou laughing at the person in front of her: " The child is young and ignorant..." Bao Gu looked forward, and saw a noble lady wearing silk fabric and gold and jade jewelry with her sleeves on her wrist and spooning a bowl of porridge into the big pottery bowl in front of Aunt Zhou.She thought, this is the sheriff's wife.

Aunt Zhou thanked again and again: "Thank you Madam Magistrate, you are really a living Bodhisattva and a living god..."

The housekeeper waved at Aunt Zhou irritably, and shouted at the top of his voice, "Next!"

Aunt Zhou bumped Bao Gu with her back elbow, as if to tell Bao Gu not to talk nonsense, and then walked away with porridge similar to rice soup, and Bao Gu, who was lined up behind Aunt Zhou, appeared in front of the long table for serving porridge.

Looking at the fair-skinned wife of the sheriff, Bao Gu felt sorry for what he said just now that might offend the wife of the sheriff, so he boasted: "Madam of the sheriff, you are so beautiful." While speaking, he saw the wife of the sheriff looked up look at her.

Bao Gu didn't understand, so he blinked and looked at the sheriff's wife, and said in his heart, "Don't look at me, you're giving me rice soup...porridge!"

Seeing Bao Gu's bewildered expression, the magistrate's wife asked, "Miss, where's your bowl?"

bowl?Bao Gu was stunned for a moment, and then realized that the casserole she used to hold the porridge was broken!She is empty-handed and has nothing to put porridge in!So this is not her share?She worked so hard to be at the front of the line but couldn't get the porridge?Bao Gu suddenly felt sad, his eyes were filled with tears, his mouth trembled, his throat was choked and he almost cried!

The housekeeper waved at Baogu impatiently: "There is no line for bowls, go and go...Didn't the sheriff reward you with five steamed buns just now? Come and line up, hurry up——" With a big wave of his hand, two guards stepped up Pull the corn away.

Bao Gu, who was waiting in line but didn't get the porridge, walked to the side steps and sat down while clutching her aching stomach. She watched eagerly as the people who got the porridge drank the porridge, which made her swallow hard.

The sheriff's wife filled a few more bowls of porridge, then gave the ladle to the servant next to her, turned her head to look at the extremely pitiful Baogu sitting on the steps beside her, and asked the steward next to her, "Who is that little girl?" ?”

The butler responded, "Mrs. Bao, that's the only daughter of Bao Shanren from Bao's Rice Shop in Dongcheng Lane!"

The magistrate's wife said "Oh" and said, "You take a bowl and serve her a bowl of porridge."

The butler agreed, raised his hand and summoned a servant, and asked the servant to deliver a bowl of porridge to Bao Gu.

The boy came to Baogu with the porridge and stretched it out, saying, "Here, Madam rewards you."

Bao Gu raised her head and looked at the old boiled rice porridge floating in front of her, licked her lips, and raised her hands to take the porridge. She looked at the boy, and turned to the wife who was comforting the victims, gently After saying "thank you", she thought for a while, stood up, took the porridge and walked to the sheriff's wife, knelt down, put the porridge on the ground, kowtowed respectfully, and said, "Thank you, madam."

Seeing that Baogu's clothes were neat and clean, and his appearance was handsome, the magistrate's wife smiled slightly, and leaned down to Baogu kindly, her lips parted, and said, "You are welcome... With half of his hands stretched out, Bao Gu, who was kneeling on the ground, lifted himself up, and at the same time took up the bowl in front of him, "gudong gudong" and drank upside down in one breath.

A bowl of warm rice soup and porridge relieved Baogu's five internal organs temple, who was so hungry. She sighed a long time, and then found that the magistrate's wife was half bent over and stretched out her hands to her. In front of him, he tactfully returned the bowl to the magistrate's wife, got up by himself, and looked at the county magistrate who was holding the empty porridge bowl in his hand, half bent over, and the smile froze on his face. Mrs. Shou.She felt something was wrong, and asked with a look of astonishment: "Ma'am, what's wrong with you? Why... you didn't move?"

The magistrate's wife pursed her lips, swallowed all the words she had prepared to promote her merits and virtues, stuffed the rice soup-stained bowl in her hand into the arms of the maid next to her, and pulled out a With a faint smile, he turned his head abruptly and walked away without looking back.

Bao Gu, who didn't know the situation, looked at the back of the sheriff's wife who didn't look back and walked into the sheriff's mansion with a puzzled face.

Aunt Zhou came out from nowhere, raised her palm and slapped Baogu's arm, and said lightly: "Damn girl, you are going to die! Madam is condescending to help you, you are not grateful , Grateful, crying and expressing Madam's kindness and kindness, it's fine, but she even gave Madam the bowl of porridge that she had just finished drinking. Do you know how precious porridge is now, and you have to lick it clean after drinking, what a waste! ..."

Bao Gu opened his mouth wide "ah", and was so startled that he didn't close his mouth for a long time.After a while, she shouted: "After drinking the porridge, do you have to lick the bowl clean? How ugly!"

The housekeeper at the side glared at Bao Gu angrily, then rolled his eyes at Aunt Zhou speechlessly, and ignored them both.

Aunt Zhou pulled Baogu's sleeve and said, "Let's go! Get up early tomorrow, and come here early to wait for the porridge to be served."

Bao Gu responded with "Yes", followed Aunt Zhou obediently, and said, "The sheriff and his wife are good people."

Aunt Zhou said: "Yes, everyone is praising the kindness of the sheriff and his wife." After a short pause, she sighed again in a low voice: "It's just that there is a little less rice in the porridge."

Bao Gu nodded vigorously in agreement.The porridge given by the Sheriff's Mansion tasted like rice soup, much weaker than the rice soup her family used to cook.Of course, Bao Gu is ashamed to complain about drinking other people's porridge for nothing.

Bao Gu followed Aunt Zhou across the crowded street outside the Sheriff's Mansion, and walked to an empty alley. Aunt Zhou looked around and saw that there was no one around, so she put her hand into her arms and gently After breaking it, he stuffed a small biscuit corner about two fingers wide into Bao Gu's hand, and said, "This is what my third girl secretly stuffed it to me just now. Eat it quickly!"

Bao Gu was robbed of the buns once, so he was really afraid of being snatched from his hands again, so he quickly stuffed them into his mouth, chewed them indiscriminately, and then swallowed them down.Because I ate too fast, I almost choked, stretched my neck and choked several times but didn't swallow it.The neck was stretched too long, the eyelids were turned up, and the eyes were looking at the sky, but unexpectedly saw that the sky in the direction of the Yunling Mountains outside the city was as red as fire, and in the red sky lay a toad the size of a dustpan.That toad the size of a dustpan was spewing fire in the sky!

Bao Gu's eyes widened in surprise, he even forgot that he was being choked by the pancake!

Aunt Zhou saw that Bao Gu was choked by the pancakes so that the veins on her neck were protruding, her face was flushed, her eyes were so wide that they were about to bulge out of her sockets, as if she was about to die from being choked, she rolled up her sleeve and slapped Bao Gu's face fiercely. behind.

Bao Gu was "boomed" by Aunt Zhou's powerful slap, and his body suddenly leaned forward, and the cake choked in his throat flew out from his throat and fell to the ground.Bao Gu coughed violently, looked tearfully at the dusty pancakes that fell on the ground, and two teardrops ran across his eyes.

Aunt Zhou stomped her feet vigorously, and sighed, "You... you said you were not wasting... alas..." She wished she could strangle Baogu to death.

Bao Gu coughed for a long time, recovered his breath, and shouted: "Aunt Zhou, toad!"

Aunt Zhou was so angry that the corners of her mouth twitched, and she cursed angrily, "You're a toad!"

Bao Gu pointed to the sky behind Aunt Zhou and said, "Aunt Zhou, it's really a toad!"

Seeing Bao Gu pointing at herself and saying that she was a toad, Aunt Zhou was so angry that she wanted to slap Bao Gu's body with her hand. On second thought, she also hoped that in the future, her eldest child would marry Bao Gu who had been planning to manage the family since she was a child, as a daughter-in-law. Suppressing that tone, he glared fiercely, and said angrily, "Why are you so mad at you? All the good cakes are ruined! This is what I saved for you from our family's rations. Are you A full man doesn't know a hungry man is hungry, you, you, you...you are mad at me!"

Bao Gu said loudly: "Aunt Zhou, there is a big toad in the sky that can only fly!"

"What? A big flying toad!"

"Yes, it's still breathing fire!" Bao Gu stared intently at the big fire-breathing toad jumping in the sky and was extremely shocked. If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes, she couldn't believe everything in front of her eyes.

Aunt Zhou really felt that Bao Gu was mocking her!Isn't she right now, making Baogu spit fire with anger!Just now Bao Gu shouted "Aunt Zhou is really a toad"!Aunt Zhou was so angry that she really didn't want to talk to Baogu, so she hummed forcefully, turned around and left, and when she turned her head, she saw a huge toad jumping in the air above the city and breathing fire non-stop. She was so excited. Grabbing the bony arm, he yelled loudly: "Bao Gu is really a big fire-breathing toad—"

Bao Gu also excitedly grabbed Aunt Zhou's hand and shouted: "Yes, yes! Aunt Zhou, you still don't believe it!"